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Complexity deserves coordination.

Blackhawk Capital Partners brings planning, investment management, and professional collaboration together around one goal: helping clients make better financial decisions with greater clarity and confidence.

SERVINGAffluent Families · Business Owners · Institutions
OFFICESScottsdale, AZ · Thiensville, WI · Brookfield, WI
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Your financial life doesn’t exist in separate pieces.

Important decisions overlap. Blackhawk considers those relationships together; before a choice in one area creates a problem in another.

ONE DECISION

A business sale affects

  • Taxes
  • Investments
  • Estate planning
  • Retirement
  • Cash flow
ONE DECISION

A concentrated stock position affects

  • Risk
  • Taxes
  • Income
  • Giving
  • Estate planning

One team. One coordinated strategy.

You shouldn’t have to translate advice between professionals. Blackhawk works alongside your CPA, attorney, and other advisors so every recommendation moves toward the same objective.

See How We Work

Better decisions benefit from more than one perspective.

Our team spans generations, professional backgrounds, and areas of focus. Each situation is examined from several angles before a recommendation is made; different expertise, one coordinated strategy.

Planning

How does this decision fit the whole picture?

Investments

What should the portfolio support?

Tax

What are the implications now and later?

Estate

How does this decision affect the next generation?

Business

Where do personal and business interests meet?

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Experience where complexity matters.

Examples of situations where specialized planning experience matters, and where each decision reaches into several others.

Explore Our Capabilities
Concentrated StockRISK · TAXES · INCOME · GIVING→Business LiquidityTAXES · ESTATE · INVESTMENTS · TIMING→Cash Balance PlansRETIREMENT · TAXES · BUSINESS CASH FLOW→Direct IndexingINVESTMENTS · TAX AWARENESS · VALUES→Retirement PlanningINCOME · INVESTMENTS · TAXES · ESTATE→AnnuitiesINCOME · RISK · RETIREMENT→

Sophisticated planning for complex financial lives.

Families & Individuals

Families & Individuals →

Personal wealth planning designed around the complete financial picture.

Business Owners

Business Owners →

Coordinate business and personal financial decisions, from growth through transition.

Institutions

Institutions →

Strategic investment and retirement-plan advisory support.

A process built around the whole picture.

Explore Our Approach
  1. 01

    Understand

    Goals, priorities, assets, obligations, and existing advisor relationships.

  2. 02

    Analyze

    Identify opportunities, conflicts, risks, and planning priorities.

  3. 03

    Coordinate

    Bring the relevant professionals and strategies together.

  4. 04

    Implement

    Put recommendations into action, with every party informed.

  5. 05

    Evolve

    Adjust the strategy as circumstances change.

Experience, multiplied.

Complex decisions benefit from multiple perspectives. You work with a team,
not a single advisor.

Meet Our Team
Kevin B. Perlberg, CFP®Managing Partner

Kevin B. Perlberg, CFP®

Donald (Trace) W. Tendick III, MBA, CFP®Partner

Donald (Trace) W. Tendick III, MBA, CFP®

Christopher D. NeiPartner & Head of Portfolio Management

Christopher D. Nei

Patrick Retzer, CPASenior Vice President – Wealth Advisor

Patrick Retzer, CPA

Jay RabinsSenior Vice President – Wealth Advisor

Jay Rabins

Investments should support the plan.

Portfolios are built from your plan outward; considering tax implications, managing risk, and applying tools like direct indexing where they fit. Then managed with long-term discipline.

Explore Asset Management
YOUR GOALS & OBLIGATIONSFINANCIAL PLANASSET ALLOCATIONPORTFOLIO IMPLEMENTATIONONGOING MANAGEMENT

Bring the pieces together.

If your financial life has become more complex, start with a conversation.